A few weeks ago, we (myself & my two friends - Tomek & Wojtek, as a part of a community called CTO Morning Coffee) hosted an online X Spaces session on Domain-Driven Design (DDD). To be clear, this wasn't supposed to be an intro session; quite the contrary....
Many people who've never seen high-performing teams in action (I mean genuinely high-performing, not just the ones who self-claim they are ...), assume that all that you need to form such a team is: * assign them a mission (they could identify with) * grant them a sufficient level of autonomy...
I've used many personality assessment methods & tools in the past. Gallup SF, Transactional Analysis, OCEAN - that sort of stuff (& more). I'm not a professional behavioral psychologist (of course), but I thought nothing would surprise me regarding the qualification of personality types. Yet, I&...
It's one of the lessons I've learned the hard way: there's no other resource valuable more than your own time. Why so? * it's hard-capped * it's not transferable (my time isn't directly exchangeable with your time, at least in...
I bet that nearly everyone in the software-crafting industry has heard about YAGNI [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_aren%27t_gonna_need_it] ("You Ain't Gonna Need It") principle. But what about TAGRI? TAGRI (which is nearly as old as YAGNI) stands for "They...
As an employee of a consulting company, I can confirm that our services are not cheap, but our clients don’t involve us in jobs every other company can do. Usually we do things that are complex, not performed successfully anywhere yet, in severe circumstances or all of the above....
In theory you can do everything with a notepad and command-line compiler, but if you want to do something efficiently, it’s good to automate what can be automated and aid what can be aided. Fortunately, many of good tools are free and there’s no cost related, but … there...
Do you know what I find a greatest addition to C# 4.0 / .NET 4.0? * Dynamic? Well, it really did enable some interesting options (especially for F# and MVC), but it wasn’t a gamechanger really * Covariance and Contravariance? Seriously, do you feel the difference? * WF 4.0? Ok,...
This news is a bit outdated, but as far as I know they were few people interested in some details of PSM II (http://www.scrum.org/scrummaster/). Here you go: 1. I didn’t even try to hide the fact, that I was interested in completing the PSM II...
Does everyone know Microsoft’s Patterns & Practices? It’s a part of MSDN Library (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff921345) where Microsoft publishes some deep dive articles (some would rather say - “books”) where you can find out how to deal with interesting topics using Microsoft technologies. My...
No, this is not gonna be another “certification obtaining” story. Today, at 04:28 AM my little daughter was born. What can I say more? I’m absolutely delighted, bewildered and in love with this tiny, cute human being. I have nothing else to add for now :)...
